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There’s a new bug affecting at least one consumable, Halloween Tonic (item #36104) and it’s similar to the one that prevents account bound items from stacking with others with the same name.
In this case, I found two partial stacks, one in personal inventory and one in a shared guild bank. The one in inventory could only be used|destroyed; the one from the guild bank could be transferred (i.e. sell|buy more|mail to). The two stacks could be combined, but ended up with the limited functionality and the resulting stack could not be placed in the guild bank, as would be expected for a non-transferable item.
The descriptions of both items were the same. The item IDs were identical (checked by using /wiki on the linked items).
I was able to resolve the issue with the same work-around used for the account-bound stacking bug: put both stacks on a single character and change maps (or log out|in for that toon).
I reported this via the in-game /bug tool. I’m also posting here for two reasons:
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